Azure Contracts in Central London

Microsoft Azure
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 383 459 683
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 19.14% 18.92% 17.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.12% 47.81% 46.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 317 431
10th Percentile £363 £400 £400
25th Percentile £475 £461 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.68% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £668 £675 £725
90th Percentile £750 £775 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £29.02 - £54.25
25th Percentile £32.86 £22.50 £58.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £23.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.17% -65.93% -13.01%
75th Percentile £51.25 £23.50 £76.25
90th Percentile £80.50 - £80.75
London median hourly rate £36.25 £23.40 £34.50
% change year-on-year +54.91% -32.17% -31.00%

All Cloud Skills
Central London

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 868 960 1,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 43.38% 39.57% 38.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 693 1,007
10th Percentile £363 £350 £313
25th Percentile £458 £430 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £535 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.49% -6.96% -
75th Percentile £664 £650 £700
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 9
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £24.20
25th Percentile £26.00 £17.39 £35.00
Median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.56 £88.30
90th Percentile £94.88 £33.98 -
London median hourly rate £30.21 £25.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year +20.83% -37.89% +8.05%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Central London

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Azure in Central London

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Central London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Central London

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Central London

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in Central London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in Central London

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Central London region over the 6 months to 4 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -1 339 £558 +1.36% 165
West End of London +6 12 £575 +7.48% 30
City of Westminster +4 5 £603 +9.55% 5
Southwark - 5 - - 1
Camden +1 3 £550 -15.38% 6
Azure
London

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 34 (8.88%) SharePoint
2 26 (6.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (3.39%) Confluence
4 11 (2.87%) Apache Spark
5 8 (2.09%) Apache
5 8 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.04%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.78%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.52%) CMS
8 2 (0.52%) Luigi
9 1 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.26%) nginx
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.26%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.78%) Trello
5 2 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (2.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.31%) Endur
3 3 (0.78%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.52%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.52%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.26%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.26%) Magento
5 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 96 (25.07%) AWS
2 63 (16.45%) Microsoft 365
3 62 (16.19%) Azure DevOps
3 62 (16.19%) Entra ID
4 53 (13.84%) Power Platform
5 42 (10.97%) GCP
6 26 (6.79%) GitHub
7 22 (5.74%) Azure Data Factory
8 18 (4.70%) Serverless
9 16 (4.18%) Azure Monitor
9 16 (4.18%) Dynamics 365
9 16 (4.18%) OneDrive
9 16 (4.18%) PaaS
10 15 (3.92%) IaaS
10 15 (3.92%) SaaS
11 14 (3.66%) Azure AKS
12 13 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (3.13%) Power Automate
13 12 (3.13%) PowerApps
14 11 (2.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 44 (11.49%) Firewall
2 25 (6.53%) DNS
3 21 (5.48%) VPN
4 16 (4.18%) Network Security
5 8 (2.09%) NGFW
6 7 (1.83%) DHCP
7 6 (1.57%) VLAN
7 6 (1.57%) WAN
8 5 (1.31%) TCP/IP
9 4 (1.04%) Internet
9 4 (1.04%) LAN
9 4 (1.04%) Modbus
9 4 (1.04%) MPLS
9 4 (1.04%) MQTT
9 4 (1.04%) SSH
9 4 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (1.04%) Wireless
10 3 (0.78%) HTTP
10 3 (0.78%) Skype
10 3 (0.78%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (10.44%) SQL Server
2 31 (8.09%) Power BI
3 20 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (3.92%) Big Data
5 13 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 13 (3.39%) Data Lake
6 12 (3.13%) NoSQL
7 11 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (2.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (2.35%) Metadata
10 7 (1.83%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (1.83%) Delta Lake
10 7 (1.83%) Tableau
11 6 (1.57%) Crystal Reports
12 5 (1.31%) Apache Hive
12 5 (1.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (1.04%) MongoDB
13 4 (1.04%) Oracle Database
13 4 (1.04%) SAP Data Services
14 3 (0.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (7.31%) JIRA
2 23 (6.01%) Git
3 16 (4.18%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.83%) GitLab
5 6 (1.57%) Postman
6 4 (1.04%) MSI
6 4 (1.04%) REST Assured
6 4 (1.04%) RStudio
6 4 (1.04%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.04%) Subversion
7 3 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.78%) JUnit
7 3 (0.78%) Maven
7 3 (0.78%) Selenium
7 3 (0.78%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.52%) JMeter
8 2 (0.52%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.52%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio Team System
8 2 (0.52%) Xcode
General
1 135 (35.25%) Finance
2 96 (25.07%) Social Skills
3 39 (10.18%) Banking
4 33 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.70%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.39%) Retail
7 11 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.35%) Legal
9 8 (2.09%) Investment Banking
9 8 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.83%) Law
11 6 (1.57%) Back Office
12 5 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.04%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.78%) Front Office
14 3 (0.78%) Police
15 2 (0.52%) Advertising
15 2 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 73 (19.06%) Architect
2 56 (14.62%) Developer
3 41 (10.70%) Senior
4 39 (10.18%) Solutions Architect
5 34 (8.88%) Analyst
6 33 (8.62%) Azure Engineer
7 28 (7.31%) Data Engineer
8 26 (6.79%) Lead
9 21 (5.48%) Support Engineer
10 18 (4.70%) Azure Architect
11 14 (3.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (3.66%) Network Engineer
12 13 (3.39%) DevOps Engineer
13 12 (3.13%) Cloud Architect
14 11 (2.87%) Project Manager
15 10 (2.61%) Business Analyst
15 10 (2.61%) Consultant
15 10 (2.61%) IT Support
15 10 (2.61%) Security Architect
15 10 (2.61%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (14.10%) .NET
2 21 (5.48%) Kafka
2 21 (5.48%) REST
3 13 (3.39%) CSS
3 13 (3.39%) HTML
3 13 (3.39%) OAuth
4 12 (3.13%) ADO
4 12 (3.13%) Web Services
5 11 (2.87%) AngularJS
5 11 (2.87%) JSON
6 10 (2.61%) React
7 9 (2.35%) PySpark
8 8 (2.09%) Node.js
8 8 (2.09%) RESTful
9 7 (1.83%) GraphQL
9 7 (1.83%) Middleware
9 7 (1.83%) YAML
10 6 (1.57%) .NET Core
10 6 (1.57%) OpenID
10 6 (1.57%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.48%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.18%) Product Ownership
3 14 (3.66%) Data Centre
4 10 (2.61%) Low-Code
5 8 (2.09%) Anti-Spyware
6 6 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (1.57%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.31%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.31%) Equities
7 5 (1.31%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.31%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.31%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.31%) Reference Data
7 5 (1.31%) Reinsurance
7 5 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.04%) Clustering
8 4 (1.04%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 63 (16.45%) Windows
2 31 (8.09%) Windows Server
3 22 (5.74%) Linux
4 16 (4.18%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.04%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.04%) Unix
6 3 (0.78%) Android
6 3 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.78%) Rocky
6 3 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.52%) Solaris
7 2 (0.52%) VMS
7 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (32.64%) DevOps
2 98 (25.59%) Agile
3 80 (20.89%) CI/CD
4 67 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (14.62%) Migration
6 37 (9.66%) Analytics
7 36 (9.40%) Infrastructure as Code
8 33 (8.62%) Stakeholder Management
9 32 (8.36%) Software Engineering
10 29 (7.57%) Microservices
11 28 (7.31%) Cloud Security
12 27 (7.05%) Test Automation
13 25 (6.53%) Data Engineering
13 25 (6.53%) Data Modelling
13 25 (6.53%) ITIL
14 24 (6.27%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (6.01%) Business Intelligence
16 22 (5.74%) Decision-Making
17 20 (5.22%) ETL
17 20 (5.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 89 (23.24%) Python
2 75 (19.58%) SQL
3 56 (14.62%) PowerShell
4 49 (12.79%) C#
5 33 (8.62%) JavaScript
6 30 (7.83%) Java
7 12 (3.13%) Bash
7 12 (3.13%) Bicep
8 7 (1.83%) C++
8 7 (1.83%) Scala
9 5 (1.31%) Go
9 5 (1.31%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.04%) Groovy
10 4 (1.04%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.04%) Ruby
11 3 (0.78%) Perl
11 3 (0.78%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.52%) R
12 2 (0.52%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.52%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 40 (10.44%) Degree
2 35 (9.14%) Security Cleared
3 25 (6.53%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.44%) Azure Certification
5 9 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (2.09%) CISSP
7 7 (1.83%) CCNP
7 7 (1.83%) CISM
7 7 (1.83%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.83%) PMP
8 6 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (1.31%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.04%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.78%) CISA
12 2 (0.52%) CCIE
12 2 (0.52%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.96%) GDPR
2 15 (3.92%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.66%) NIST
4 13 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (2.35%) QA
6 7 (1.83%) SLA
7 4 (1.04%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.04%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.78%) EMIR
8 3 (0.78%) MiFID
9 2 (0.52%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.52%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.52%) PMO
9 2 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 66 (17.23%) Active Directory
2 21 (5.48%) Docker
3 8 (2.09%) Hyper-V
3 8 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.52%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.52%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.26%) Firmware
8 1 (0.26%) NFS
8 1 (0.26%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.26%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.26%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.26%) Platform Symphony
8 1 (0.26%) Veritas File System
8 1 (0.26%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 49 (12.79%) Terraform
2 44 (11.49%) Kubernetes
3 34 (8.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (4.70%) Ansible
5 17 (4.44%) SCCM
6 7 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.78%) Consul
8 3 (0.78%) Control-M
8 3 (0.78%) Forefront Identity Manager
8 3 (0.78%) Grafana
9 2 (0.52%) AirWatch
9 2 (0.52%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.52%) Kibana
9 2 (0.52%) MOM
9 2 (0.52%) Nagios
9 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.52%) QRadar
9 2 (0.52%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
9 2 (0.52%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 121 (31.59%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.14%) Databricks
3 23 (6.01%) ServiceNow
4 18 (4.70%) Oracle
4 18 (4.70%) VMware
5 17 (4.44%) SAP
6 15 (3.92%) Palo Alto
7 14 (3.66%) CheckPoint
8 11 (2.87%) Cisco
9 10 (2.61%) Citrix
10 9 (2.35%) Fortinet
10 9 (2.35%) Infoblox
11 8 (2.09%) CyberArk
12 7 (1.83%) Google
12 7 (1.83%) Splunk
13 5 (1.31%) F5
13 5 (1.31%) IBM
13 5 (1.31%) OpenLink
13 5 (1.31%) Qualys
14 4 (1.04%) MuleSoft